Diff for "LouisZamperini"

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Laura Hillenbrand 2010

Beaverton Lib 940.5472 HIL

• USAAF Pilot Louis Zamperini, Japanese POW Camps
• scrambled timeline preface
• xvii preface 1943/6/23 raft in Pacific, 27 days after crash
• xviii strafed by Japanese bomber

• 003 1929/8/26 12yo L.Z. childhood home Torrance CA, Graf Zeppelin overhead at night

• 005 LZ born 1917/1/26 in Olean NY f. Anthony railway electrician, m. Louise

• 005-007 hellion, scared of airplane flights 008 older brother Pete, younger sisters Silvia and Virginia
• 013 1931 Louis steals tickets, brother Pete convinces school principal to let Louis run track, Pete coached him
• 015 Louis surrenders to Pete, seriously runs, 016 builds lungs, 225 seconds underwater
• 017 swivelling hips, seven foot stride, 1933 high school class president, wins races, breaks records
• 018 wins 1933 UCLA Cross Country two-mile race by more than a quarter mile
• 020 1934 National high school 4:21.3 mile, beating 4.23.6 record, broken by Bob Seaman in 1953
• 025 Wins 1936 Olympic trials 5000 meter race in New York, overeats on ship
• 034 7th in race, 14:46.8, fastest American 5000 in 1936, fastest last lap ever 56 seconds
• 035 Hitler says (translated) "Ah, you're the boy with the fast finish"
• 036 Steals chancellery flag, allowed to keep it
• 040 USC, Jimmy Sazaki p46 Japanese spy
• 041 June 1938, NCAA championship, attacked and boxed by other runners, still wins mile with 4:08.3, NCAA record until 1973
• 044 1940 Olympics Japan host withdraws, Finland alternate attacked, leaves USC a few credits short, welder at Lockheed
• 044 early 1941 joins Army Air Corps, washes out, joins army again September 29
• 052 Japan attacks Wake Island air base Dec 11, lose two destroyers and 1153 men, Americans lose 52, 98 captured Dec 23

• 053 kludge bombsight and an $8000 Norden bombsight

• 054 Louis visits home, then to Ephrata (WA) Army Airfield
  • 055 pilot Russell Allen Phillips Indiana, Purdue U

  • 058 Top turret gunner & engineer Stanley Pillsbury, Maine

  • 058 Waist gunner & engineer Clarence Douglas, Virginia

  • 058 Nose gunner & navigator Robert Mitchell, Illinois

  • 058 Belly gunner & radioman Frank Glassman, Chicago

  • 058 Tail gunner Ray Lambert, Maryland

  • 058 Waist gunner & radioman Harry Brooks, Michigan

  • 058 Co-pilot George Moznette

• 059 372nd Bomb Squadron 307th Bomb Group Seventh Air Force